Raphaël : 

Diner in the Dark:  A tall, monolithic glass of varying chocolate experiences that can only be analyzed under intense focus of the senses. This deviation is created by five layers of intricately designed chocolate pastries and creams to highlight the most popular and wild flavors of chocolate.

Nowadays, eating food revolves more and more around the appearance of the food rather than its actual taste. Indeed, the appearance of a dish has a significant influence on the customer, and more and more chefs are creating extraordinary looking dishes to attract people. However, the visual appearance of some dishes can take away some of the taste by tricking someone's mind into analyzing a flavor. For example, if one sees a chocolate cookie, he will already have the flavor of the desert in his mind even before tasting it. Diner in the Dark removes the visual sense of the consumer to highlight the other senses, specifically taste, smell, and touch. The different layers that constitute this dish are each made of a different chocolate flavor as well as texture. Diner in the Dark also brings up the importance of being sensorially connected to the world. As technology becomes a bigger part of modern life, vision and hearing have become the dominant senses. However, it is equally important to develop and continue to enrich one's experience through smell, taste, and touch. 

Maxwell:

Trust Your Sense: A tall, monolithic glass of varying chocolate concoctions that can only be analyzed under intense focus of the senses. This deviation is created by five layers of intricately designed chocolate pastries and creams to highlight the most popular and wild flavors of chocolate.

In the modern culinary world, so much of the food consumers buy is marketed to elicit the tastes in memory before they've even opened the package.  Trust Your Sense reattunes the senses towards food by removing the one thing food corporations influence the most: sight. With the intention of magnifying the dishes' different flavors, Trust Your Sense blurs one's premonitions of taste with its mysterious presentation and experiential design. Because the cup is filled with hardened chocolate ganache,  the diner cannot gauge what or how many different flavors will be experienced. As they make their first entrance into the dish, they find a thick layer of milk chocolate ganache, which seems to fill the entire cup. Then, they reach a crunchy layer of crushed hazelnuts, followed by white chocolate jello and candied grapefruit chunks. After this, thinly spread Nutella that surrounds pretzel bit inserts is sandwiched by two layers of salty cake. Second to last, a layer of milk pastry cream with two maraschino cherries acts as a palate cleanser before a layer of spicy chocolate ganache. Spiced with chili powder, the ganache creates a finale to the experience of this wide range of flavors. Trust Your Sense is—at heart—a simply enjoyable experience. It makes the diner think about which flavors they can relate to and which they cannot. This re-equilibration  and exploration of food is lost in the modern setting and culture of supermarkets by marketed packages that obscure the actual flavors that one will experience.